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Many people, Americans in particular, have struggled with the more unsavory aspects of history. It’s one thing to absorb events in distant lands from hundreds or even thousands of years ago, and it’s another entirely to sit with the uncomfortable or shocking truths of more recent happenings, especially if they occurred where you live.

Noah (Daisy Edgar-Jones) doesn’t have much luck on dating sites. She’s 22.

There is an old adage that says, ‘crime doesn’t pay,’ but countless film and television creators have spent a good deal of their creative energies dissecting the ins and outs of that proverb. John Patton Ford, an MFA graduate of the American Film Institute, turns his imaginative eye to law-breaking with the film Emily the Criminal, premiering at Sundance.

The Sundance Film Festival has, for many years, exhibited a dedicated environmental streak, both in its staging and its programming. From high-profile fare like An Inconvenient Truth (which used its 2006 non-competition premiere as a springboard to two eventual Oscar victories) and The Cove (U.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to spend your entire career studying volcanoes, chasing lava and dodging geysers of fire? In Fire of Love, we get to see exactly that. The 90-minute documentary, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of Katie and Maurice Krafft, married scientists who captured the most incredible video footage of their shared obsession: volcanoes.

Growing up in Hawaii, Alika Tengan always felt that the landscape of films available was not reflective of who he or his friends were. Intuitively knowing many fascinating perspectives were waiting to be told, he enrolled to study film at the University of Hawaii.

Gentleness and bodybuilding are not generally supposed to go together very well. Yet, in the Hungarian film Gentle, they do – perfectly so.

There are those who celebrate birthdays by blowing out candles and singing the usual tune. Others prefer cake, a toast or some flowers.

Algorithms, censorship, shadow banning, geopolitics, racism, and cybersecurity. There’s a lot to unpack in Shalini Kantayya’s new documentary TikTok, Boom.

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